Fellow erotic visual novel writers Tlaero and Mortze continue to up the game with their latest release Saving Chloe, which I believe is probably the best game of the genre ever, and sets the bar for the rest of us who work in this genre. The story is excellent, the artwork is excellent, the 9 possible “good” endings all contain
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Many people have been asking me about releasing Date Ariane on the Apple App store for use on iphones and ipads. I have not done so because the Apple App store forbids erotic games like Date Ariane in their store. And yet where there is a demand, there will be someone to fill it. Two different “Dating Sim” apps have
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Posts about other Erotic Visual Novels are consistently the most popular, and I haven’t done one in a while, so here goes. If you want to see my other posts like this, click on the category “Visual Novels” or just click here. Finding Miranda Story by Tlaero Graphics by Mortze Format: Javascript/HTML Download link Play Online Link This is the
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This is the third (or 4th?) look at other games similar to Date Ariane. In fact the creators of all 3 games mentioned Date Ariane as their original inspiration. Of course once you make one game, you try and make something better than your last. My concept of improving was making better pictures and packaging it as a real downloadable
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It seems the most popular post on my blog is “A Few More Erotic 3D Dating Sims” so maybe I should do more posts like that. Here is a few I found in the last year and a half since that post. Dreaming With Elsa Written by Tlaero Art by Mortze Format HTML using Tlaero’s Adventure Creator Link to Play
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For over a decade I have swung on a pendulum between “creative” and “playing” and after three years of mostly being in “creative” mode, I seem to be in a deep “playing” cycle of video games. Hence my lack of blog posts as I generally have little to say while in “playing” mode. One of the games I have been
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August is a slow month, so I decided to break the monotony and try out a few Visual Novel Dating Sims created by other people. I played four that are at least interesting enough to check out. Inspiring Celina Story by Superawesomemans Graphics by Sylakone2 Download and Online play link This is the newest and the best of the four
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Date Ariane 10th Anniversary Part 2 Date Ariane (first released 2004) may not have been the first dating sim to only have a single character, though I don’t know any that predate it, and I wasn’t influenced by any. Date Ariane may not have been the first dating sim done in 3D graphics, thought I don’t know of any that
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There has been a lot of talk lately about Japan’s radically changing society. It started with an article in the Guardian with the viral headline “Why have young people in Japan stop having sex?” The headline was terribly misleading, young people in Japan are having sex. They are just getting married a lot less and having fewer babies. The notion
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More random notes from around the metaverse… The Vanity Google Ever heard the term “vanity google”? It’s basically where you google your own name and any online monikers you may use, and it is actually a good idea to do every now and then, especially if you are being cyber bullied. I tried googling myself (arianeb) and of course I
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